The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-08-18

CHRONICLE i'll every section of the State
are requested TO aid Us in making this de-
partment an accurate record, in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
Us postal card whenever anything of
pubic interest tranSpires in your neigh
borhood Or section of country. You will
aid lis and give prominence to your sec
tlon. Send Oh the postal cards. - EplToR.
...- There are now 210 orphans at the
oxford Orphan Asylum.
The corner stone Of Union BAPTIST
church at Lexington WAS laid last week.
On the question of bonding t he debt
OF famllco county the people voted to-day.
-. 1t IS stated that Durham paid 81
400, 900 III freights during he past year
49,. Charlotte in December will vote on
the issue Of so, 600 in bonds, for city i'm
provements.
49,. Nearly all the small bridges in Edge
oombe county We're washed away by the
recent freshets.
At Mt Holly last week Mr.. Henry
Nander'ip, OF Charlotte, was gored in the
abdomen by bull.
There are about 250 people at the
Nag'S Head hotel. About the same num-
Der are at Morehead City
-. Sunday was the great day of the
Friends Yearly Meeting at High Point.
Vt least 1900 people were present.
Last week a fire broke out in the
Wilson Cotton Mills but was checked be-
fore serious damage was done to the
building.
-. North Carolina is yet ahead. At
the Mt Holly fair last week a boy aged 10
was on exhibition. He is five feet high
and weighs Il! pounds
There are 1s6 patients il the East
ern Insane Asylum, colored, near Colds
bor0. EIghty-Seven of these are males
and ninety nine females.
The Genesee gold mine, in Mont
somery county, has yielded 500, 600 in
three months. IN tWenty-siX DAYS during
July $50, ,3s. Was the yield
The Macon county Savings Bank
has been established at Franklin, with }.
johnson. president; w. f. Johnson, cash
ieri cope Elias, attorney.
...Thero IS said TO be prospect of a
Rogue sound line of steamers being put
on IL the early Fall. to connect with the
Q. y. ;. :. Line at New Berne.
Frank N. Brooks, a printer, was
found dead near Dobblnsville, Wayne
county, lasF week. He was q brother of
the late Judge Brooks, OF Elizabeth City
-. In Il fight between Charles Johnson
and Daniel Rlggs, section hands on the n.
4. K. T. near GoldSbGrO, last week, John
son was struck Oh the head and seriously
injured.
During the Mt. Holly Changers
meeting last week a gentleman by the
name Of \aGderip, while taking Jersey
bull from Il box car, WAS badly gored. per
haps fatally.
....At Morganton a land and improve
ment company has been organized with
MIR. John H. Pearson president. 1t has
$50, capital, and viii greatly benefit
that pleasant town.
"A few miles below Wilmington a
dredge, While at work deepening the chan
mel, found two 8 inch iron shot, coupled
together by 4 foot chain, evidently a
relic of the late war.
49,. Sunday Hiram Daily was run over
by train on the Western North Carolina
road at Hickory. His thigh and legs were
broken and his head was badly hurt. He
will die from his injuries.
There were rumors that the bid of
Mr.. Carr for the Atlantic hotel, at More
head City, would be raised. There is no
raise" and Mr.. Carr and his syndicate
gel the property Tor SIS, 100
The Lumber Bridge Independent
Company has organized in Robson county.
Its officers are: Captain, Hector McEach
ern; 1st Lieutenant, Stephen J. Cobb, Jr. :;
2ud Lieutenant, Angus L. Shaw.
49,. Reports have been current in many
parts of the State that the amount of ty
phoid fever AT Asheville is excessive The
Citizen denies this. and says the health
OF the place Is better than usual.
j.. Mr.. Julian 5. Carr, with his usual
kindness and liberty, pays all the expenses
of Che Durham Light Infantry and band
for their trip to Waynesville and their en-
campment at that delightful place.
The extensive lumber mills, dry
kins, DC, of d. c. Way Il Co., in Tyrrell
ed at $50, 000 with SIC 600 insurance. The
mills Will Immediately be rebuilt.
, Last week material train on the
AshcvIlle & Spartanburg Railroad, near
Hendersonyille, was thrown from the track,
by the wheels passing over COW. Eight
men were injured, some seriously.
-. Yesterday at New Garden the semi
centennial of the Friends school was
celebrated. Addresses were made by Gov.
Scales, DR.. Nereus Mendenhall, Judge j..
w. Albertson, Prof. Joseph Moore and
others.
~ Maj James H. Wilson has given
the Guilford Battle Ground Association a
beautiful marble shaft from the Nantahala
quarres, to be erected on the spot where
Lees Bugler' fell in the Revolutionary
war.
.... In Sampson county last week some
unknown scOundrel entered the house of
Emma Moore, colored, and inflicted a
most terrible wound, cutting her through
the bowels. The attending physician says
she cannot recover.
- 1t is learned that prominent and
public spirited North Carolinian has volun
tarily offered to build a large and hand
some hall at Morehead City, for the use OF
the Teachers Assembly. Secretary Har
rel is now at Morehead.
| -. Last week, one morning, on going
to his store, Mr.. Burgess Nichols, of Char
! lotte, found that burglars had artistically
| drilled hole in his safe and put half a
pound of powder inside, for blast. The
fuse was ready to be lighted
. At Wilson, Sunday night, as JOSEPH
Simms and John Moody, negro boys aget
about fifteen years, were playing with {
revolver it was discharged while in SimmS
hands. The ball passed through Moody
| body and killed him instantly.
....At Bob Millers house, on Mr.. G
Hamlin's plantation, while one of tn,
children was sitting in the room, an ole
| red fox calmly walked into the ROOM tool